On the importance of automated benchmarks
A couple of years ago, Antirez wrote a note on his blog about “The Toilet test”. He made a couple of great points, criticizing the test and the method.
Category: Blog
How fuzzing helped us find a nasty bug
> The issue described in this post has been fixed in quasardb 1.0.1 released today. We strongly encourage our customers to upgrade their clusters. This issue can cause a denial of service if an attacker has access to the network where your quasardb cluster is installed.
Scaling with C++ 11
My “Scaling with C++ 11” talk is online. It’s really great to see yourself in video because everything bad about your presentation becomes obvious. I already have a lot of ideas to improve this one and I hope I can deliver something much better at Meeting C++. I hope to see you there!
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
In my C++ Now 2013 presentation, I talked about the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird as an example of how you sometimes go around problems by “leaking”:
String to int and vice versa
> Hope you guys are enjoying C++ Now! We use Boost.Spirit for all our parsing and generation. What I mean by that is that when you have to parse input or generate output, we don’t use std::stringstream, we don’t use the C libraries and we definitely don’t write custom parsers or generators.